How did we not get hunter tanks?
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Aspect of the Beast
The hunter and their pet bond on a primal level.
- You gain access to Growl, which Taunts the target to attack you.
- You have 6% reduced chance to be critically hit by melee attacks.
- Healing the Hunter now heals the pet for 20%.
- You deal 20% less damage, but the threat generated by all your actions is massively increased, and your pet’s damage now contributes to your threat.
Aspect of the Beast is affected by the following talents:
- Spirit Bond healing increased to 10%, and now also reduces damage taken by 5%.
- Thick Hide increases you and your pet’s armor by an additional 10%.
- Deterrence cooldown is reduced to 2 minutes while Aspect of the Beast is active.
- Counterattack now reduces the remaining cooldown of Deterrence by 10 seconds when successfully used.
- Improved Aspect of the Monkey provides additional dodge.
- Improved Aspect of the Hawk is affected by melee attacks and grants melee attack power.
- Pathfinding grants an activated ability with a 2-minute cooldown, increasing movement speed by 50% for 10 seconds, and breaks roots.
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No
No.
Tanks that share through pet already got removed because it allowed for ways to cheese 1 shots. Also made healers hate life because they had to heal the pet. A 20% dmg to healing on the pet is nothing because tanks don’t deal lots of damage. This just looks like ur trying to make tank lock 2.
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I thought the same thing. Hunter tanks would’ve been so cool.
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Taking a bit of an ordering everything on the menu approach to tank abilities here and missing a lot of what hunter already has access to. All we need to tank (besides available gear) is defense/taunt conversion, and about 4-6k armor (which is around the amount a max level pet has coincidentally). I made a post earlier this week drafting out some ways to do that Hunter Tank When - WoW Classic / Season of Discovery - World of Warcraft Forums Also as East pointed out damage splitting is a very slippery slope in with vanilla mechanics so it is safer to keep pet as your stat factory for balance reasons (hence the way felguards have been managed- they have 60k in mythic naxx it wouldnt be fair to be able to use them as a damage sponge.)
I do agree with you though, blizzard missed the forest for the trees not adding hunter tanks in the P4 rune shuffle.
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Indeed. Such a simple and fun opportunity that was missed.
i threw that in for good measure and you’re right, soul links are cheese, and not necessary. My hunter has insane dodge and parry right now.
no cause hunters would be broken even more than they are.
Also stop trying to make a ranged class melee. holy hell
Its bad enough theres “melee hunters”
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the amount of brainrot from melee hunters is pretty insane, its a priority rotation and its not even fun, but top dps anyways cuz lol devs main hunters.
Fun is subjective.
Also mele hunter rotation is more interesting then ranged right now since all they do is spam kill shot for most of the fight.
agreed, i really enjoy the priority based style of melee hunter. Mines Lv.34, 55% dodge/parry, 30% crit, which means I just melt mobs while leveling. I was going to level bandages but i just don’t take enough damage which is why I wish it had a legit tank spec.
Aspect of the Beast would have to be balanced around damage reduction and threat increases so it won’t be used as unintended
They would need to make hunters avoidance tanks. They are already upset at avoidance tanks ATM. Shifting tanks to more self sustain with high HP/armor. I’m all for hunter tanks however a lot would have to go into it and the end result would just be lmao why not just run X tank instead this phase. Like it always has been. Id rather have them attempt to fix current tanks which they hate tanks so not much luck unfortunately.
^ Warlock can’t use soul link in demon form and this guy is like “Ok but what if we made hunter tanks and gave them an even better version of the 31 point talent via part of their tank rune”
I stopped reading after that.
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This unfortunately I think is the biggest hurdle, it would have made a lot sense to add something with the hunter avoidance kit in like P4 but after all the avoidance nerfs we’ve seen that part of the tank identity is clearly something the SoD team don’t want to design around, same with allowing pets to be valuable for health/threat/positioning (felguard doing anything but sitting there and looking handsome not allowed apparently). In an ideal SoD we had hunter tanks in time to be tuned with the rest of them but I dont think the devs pass the vibe check to make them anymore based on the current state of tank(s).
Another link in the chain. xD
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